Once it's installed and running a small icon will sit in your system tray. When you connect your Blackberry via USB (and maybe bluetooth?) the application will detect your it, and PodTrapper will use your computer's network connection for downloading.

Keep in mind that this isn't necessary for anyone with a wifi device or whose provider allows for unlimited file size for over the air downloads.

Let me know what you think! (And if it doesn't work for anyone).

-Marcus

Versatile MonkeyFor more/quicker help make sure to check out the user manuals

I just had to say well done for providing this option. I just moved from an 8820 to an 8310, hence losing my WiFi capabilities, and if this option works for me I'll be buying your podcast app shortly. Downloading the trial now to give is a shot.

Marwatk, any chance you'll have support for encrypted media cards anytime soon? I can't try it out until it works with encrypted media cards since my company enforces encryption as a BES policy.. Darn!

Please let me know your thoughts..

Thanks for all your hard work on this app! It looks very nice!

MrSimmonsSr wrote:I just had to say well done for providing this option. I just moved from an 8820 to an 8310, hence losing my WiFi capabilities, and if this option works for me I'll be buying your podcast app shortly. Downloading the trial now to give is a shot.

As an FYI to everyone, this app seems to be working great for me, regardless of the encryption policy on my device. I am using the Desktop Downloader and it is working great. Thanks, Marcus!

MrSimmonsSr wrote:Marwatk, any chance you'll have support for encrypted media cards anytime soon? I can't try it out until it works with encrypted media cards since my company enforces encryption as a BES policy.. Darn!

I have a download package and I have been using the desktop app while I charge my phone. Is there any speed advantage to this? I assumed there would be, but I am not sure how to tell if a pod cast is being dled with the desktop app or the cell network.

Generally your desktop will be much faster than the cell network downloads. Unfortunately there's no way (other than seeing if the little arrows that indicate cell traffic are going) to see how PodTrapper is downloading, but I've added a todo to add some indication somewhere.

-Marcus

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Hi Duffy, I ran into that last week myself during some testing. It happens when the remote server is either down or not known (a timeout or dns error will cause it). There's a bug in the desktop download that doesn't allow it to recover after that happens, so it needs to be closed and restarted to start working again.

It's on my todo list, but I haven't had a chance to fix it yet.

-Marcus

Versatile MonkeyFor more/quicker help make sure to check out the user manuals

That happens when the BB Device Manager gets out of whack. You may be able to fix it by exiting both PodTrapper (via Menu-Exit) and the desktop app and reopening both, but usually it requires a reboot of the PC. Sorry I don't have a better answer for you

-Marcus

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I installed Desktop Downloader on my home PC. When DD runs, it just displays the message "Invalid Pointer" in the log. I don't get prompted for my password (like at work), and PT doesn't seen to recognize that DD is connected.

JavaDevelop wrote:I installed Desktop Downloader on my home PC. When DD runs, it just displays the message "Invalid Pointer" in the log. I don't get prompted for my password (like at work), and PT doesn't seen to recognize that DD is connected.

Hello. I just started evaluating PodTrapper and saw another thread mentioned something about disabling mass storage mode so I'm curious if the desktop downloader works fine with mass storage mode enabled. For my purposes I need it enabled.

hi markus. i saw you ask what kind of proxy earlier in this thread. i'm just on a straight http proxy, no user/password required. maybe you could implement that initially just to test that the basics are working, then add socks and passwords and whatnot. since that won't require me to wipe my device, i'm happy to test it for you.

I was wondering if anyone has tried the desktop app with Windows 7 x64? I can't get it to run, I have tried every 'compatibility mode' option available and when PT opens it just says "connection advice is unavailable (next line) invalid pointer" and it just continues saying "invalid pointer" after that. If I go back into my XP partition it works just fine.

lswift84 wrote:I was wondering if anyone has tried the desktop app with Windows 7 x64? I can't get it to run, I have tried every 'compatibility mode' option available and when PT opens it just says "connection advice is unavailable (next line) invalid pointer" and it just continues saying "invalid pointer" after that. If I go back into my XP partition it works just fine.

Hi there,

I haven't tried any of the 64bit stuff, but my original development was done in Windows 7, so it shouldn't be an OS thing. (And afaik it works in Vista 64, so it shouldn't be a 64 bit thing). It could be the combination of both, though. Usually 'invalid pointer' happens when the desktop manager software isn't installed. Is that the case?

-Marcus

Versatile MonkeyFor more/quicker help make sure to check out the user manuals

I haven't tried any of the 64bit stuff, but my original development was done in Windows 7, so it shouldn't be an OS thing. (And afaik it works in Vista 64, so it shouldn't be a 64 bit thing). It could be the combination of both, though. Usually 'invalid pointer' happens when the desktop manager software isn't installed. Is that the case?

-Marcus

Oh man how stupid of me, that was the problem! I installed DM and it seems to be working just fine. I had to set capability mode to vista and then it loaded up just fine. It seems to take about a minute hanging at "Client successfully connected" before it starts to update which is kind of odd. Thanks for helping my stupidity!

I first loaded and hooked up my Storm to one computer using PodTrapper Desktop Downloader v1.2, all working fine. But now I tried to hook up to another computer. This one has LAN line and faster. But all I get is:

I thought others might appreciate this tip. Normally I use mass storage mode so I can keep some files synced with my computer and I discovered a quick way to disable mass storage mode is to lock my Blackberry Storm before plugging in the USB cable.

tmg8r wrote:I thought others might appreciate this tip. Normally I use mass storage mode so I can keep some files synced with my computer and I discovered a quick way to disable mass storage mode is to lock my Blackberry Storm before plugging in the USB cable.

Requesting http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/1pcast.the ... 070809.mp3Sending error:12030The connection with the server has been reset or terminated, or an incompatible SSL protocol was encountered. For example, WinHTTP 5.1 does not support SSL2 unless the client specifically enables it.Error: java.io.EOFException / nullRequesting http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/1pcast.the ... 070909.mp3Sending error:12030The connection with the server has been reset or terminated, or an incompatible SSL protocol was encountered. For example, WinHTTP 5.1 does not support SSL2 unless the client specifically enables it.Error: java.io.EOFException / nullRequesting http://dl.pcgamer.com/pcgp_181_20090625.mp3Sending error:12030The connection with the server has been reset or terminated, or an incompatible SSL protocol was encountered. For example, WinHTTP 5.1 does not support SSL2 unless the client specifically enables it.Error: java.io.EOFException / null

Regarding the previous post. I have the download manager connected and mass storage off. I have successfully downloaded episodes from Engadget, however PC Gamer and the 404 podcasts are generating the following error:

Sending error: 12030The connection with the server has been reset or terminated, or an incompatible SSL protocol was encountered. For example, WinHTTP 5.1 does not support SSL2 unless the client specifically enables it.Error: java.io.EOFException / null

It tried multiple times - each time restarting from the beginning, and each time failing with the same error somewhere in the middle. Finally I disconnected it and it downloaded them fine (by restarting the download) over the cellular connection.

Has this problem been fixed since 2.1.4? Haven't been following the forum or the betas for a few weeks (got married, honeymoon, moved to a new place). I'll try the beta anyway, but I just want to note that I've been having the same issue with this feed (NYT: Science Times). Hasn't been an issue yet, since its only on recent episodes and I'm still way behind on my podcasts.